Aloha! This is Kate on the last day of my honeymoon on Kauaii's east shore.

My husband is breaking down camp before we head back to our home in Frigid, Minnesota.

This podcast was recorded at...

It's 2.07 Eastern on Tuesday, January 25th.

Things may have changed by the time you hear this.

Okay, enjoy the show!

I was gonna say I was jealous, but if they're going back to Minnesota for the rest of the winter, I feel like it evens out.

I'm still jealous. I've always wanted to go to Hawaii.

Miles speaking of honeymoon, you just got engaged the other day. Congratulations.

I did, I did. We don't know where we're gonna go for our honeymoon, but...

Maybe Hawaii. Hawaii's in the running.

Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Scott Detro. I cover the White House.

I'm Miles Parks. I cover voting.

And we have talked a lot about voting here on the podcast lately.

Republicans blocked Democrats' efforts to pass voting rights legislation at the federal level,

so that Democrats failed to change filibuster rules to get it done with a simple majority vote.

Today, we are going to zoom back into the state level for two reasons.

First, because there are new pushes in Republican-controlled states to restrict voting,

and we are starting to get a sense of how some of the laws passed last year are affecting elections.

So first, we're going to start in Texas with Ashley Lopez of KUT in Austin. Hey, Ashley.

Hey there.

Welcome back to the podcast. You were with us to talk all about the push to pass this law last year.

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